Background
Bishop, John Peale was born on May 21, 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia, United States. Son of Jonathan Peale and Margaret Miller (Cochran) Bishop.
Bishop, John Peale was born on May 21, 1892 in Charles Town, West Virginia, United States. Son of Jonathan Peale and Margaret Miller (Cochran) Bishop.
Bachelor of Letters, Princeton, 1917.
Managing editor Vanity Fair, 1920-1922. Director of Publications Program, 1941-1942, later special consultant, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
Editor (with Allen Tate). American Harvest: Twenty Years of Creative Writing in the United States, 1942. Author: Green Fruit (poems), 1917.
Undertaker’s Garland (poems, with Edmund Wilson), 1922. Many Thousands Gone (stories), 1931. Now with His Love (poems), 1933.
Act of Darkness (novel), 1935. Minute Particulars (poems), 1936. Selected Poems, 1941.
Contributor articles, verse, fiction to mags.
Served as First lieutenant Infantry United States Army, 1917-1919, with Headquarters Troop, 84th Division, American Expeditionary Force. Member Phi Beta Kappa. Club: Princeton Quadrangle.
Married Margaret Grosvenor Hutchins, June 17, 1922. Children: Jonathan Peale, Robert Grosvenor, Christopher.